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Dawera-Daweloor language

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 10, 2024
Entity authorityQ5242304 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dawera-Daweloor is an Austronesian language spoken in six villages on Dawera and Daweloor islands in South Maluku, Indonesia.

Phonology

Consonants

Dawera-Daweloor has the following consonants.

Vowels

Dawera-Daweloor has the following vowels.

Notes

References

Svetlana Chlenova. 2002. "Daweloor, A Southwest Moluccan Language," Malaisko-indoneziiskie Issledovanlija 15:145-175.

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“Dawera-Daweloor language” enters the record as language. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dawera-Daweloor and language can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dawera-Daweloor language” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.